Posts by Paul Campbell
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I'm in 2 minds about STV - I agree it's the best way to elect people to a seat or office - but it can get stupidly complex - ranking the 40-50 people who run for the 11 seats on the DCC's central ward is stupidly hard.
I also have a problem that it's less transparent than other elections - vote counting for Dunedin local body elections effectively occur in Christchurch where someone types ballot papers into computers over a period of 3 weeks - want to be a scrutineer? you effectively have to quit your job and move to Christchurch for a month - want a recount? it's done by a for profit organisation so it costs tens of thousands of dollars (or they just push the button that reruns the program that counts the already keyed in ballots) - I like that we still count ballots manually with people looking on
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I thought the AV vote was a LibDem promise that was part of their coalition agreement with the tories
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FTTP s the same as FPTP right?
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Today's Tremain .... it never ends .... is it me or is Key getting more and more Muldoonesque as time goes on
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Tremain continues to rag on pony-boy
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Tremain’s latest (this morning's ODT editorial cartoon) – who says Key’s not a laughing stock – pony-boy will never hear the end of this ….
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That Taiwanese news channel that does animations of world events .... well #ponygate:
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to nzlemming,
or "fetish" or some form of OCD (not that there's anything wrong with either of these, if they're consensual)
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Christchurch isn’t the only city in this situation – though at least it has a good excuse – Dunedin’s seen rates increases way above inflation for the past decade, often close to 10% mostly because of the council’s unability to stop spending, the stadium debacle has committed us to at least a few more years of the same, it’s still losing millions a year just to subsidise rugby tickets – Kaipara’s in a bad state too, again because of a council that couldn’t stop spending.
When I lived in California the state (and I think cities) were legally required to bring in a balanced budget, and citizens were required to vote for any increases, this put continual pressure on the politicians to at least consider the possibility of moderation (mind you there were severe downsides to this too).
I think it’s easy for a politician to want to look good doling out the goodies, kind of human nature, no one gets elected to these positions with the goal of not doing things. We need to praise those who show restraint and are realistic in the face of adversity a bit more.
